Baby furniture.



No. 700,00l. Patented May 13, I902.

w. P. ABELL. BABY FURNITURE.

(Application filed Feb. 6, 1901.)

( No Model.)

' (gkbm Emma ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

IVILLIAM PRICE ABEL L, OF DERBY,'ENGLAND.

BABY FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,001, dated, May 13, 1902.

' Application filed February. 6, Serialllo. 46,254. (No model.)

such as will enable those skilled'in the art'to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7 j

The object of this invention is to provide meansfor preventing infants from getting into mischief, while atlthe same time allowing them freedomof movenient'and amusement and free exercise for the full'development of their limbs, chest, and muscles; and

with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device for the purpose specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

To attain the object of myinvention, I provide a portable and collapsible pen or inelos ure device consisting of a plurality of parts, panels, or'sections, which are preferably four in number, two of the adjacent parts, panels, or sections being of the same length and shorter than the other two, which are also of the same length, the said parts, panels, or

sections being connected at the ends, so as to allow them to swing or turn freely one upon another, and Iplace this device on theground either out of doors or in a room, having preferably first spread a rug beneath the same larger than the pen or inclosure device, and on this rug I place the said device, andthe baby or child is placed therein.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated. by the same reference characters in each of the views, Figure 1 is aside 'elevationof myflimproved pen or inclosure device; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof, and *Fig. 3 an end elevation showing the penorinclosure device folded or collapsed. 1

In the practice of my inventionl provide a pen or inclosure device, which in. the form of construction shown inl the' drawings is com posed of four panels, parts, or'sections a, a a and a, and these parts, panels, or sections are hinged together at the ends or so connected as to allow them to freely turn one upon another. Two of these parts, panels, or

sections a and a are made shorter than the 1 remaining parts, panels, or sections a and a,

so as'to enable the pen or inclosure device to ;preferably composed of. laths or bars A, B,

and O, which are about three inches apart, and are so connected with posts E and E as to freely turn thereon, the said laths or bars being preferably threaded onto thesaid posts. By making the two parts, panels, or sections a. and a? shorter than the other two and connecting them in the manner described at F/the connection at E may be folded inwardly, so that the parts of the pen or inclosure device will assume the position shown in Fig. .3.

In ordinaryuse the pen or inclosure device is' placed on the ground or on the floor, as shown in Fig. 2, and when not in use and for shipping and other purposes the separate parts thereof are folded, as shown in Fig. 3, and may be more compactly folded than is shown in said figure.

Having thus fully described my invention,

.what I claim as new, and desire 'to secure by Letters Patent, is-- Apen or inclosure device of the class specifiedconsisting of four separate parts, panels or sections, two of which are hinged together and are shorter than the other two and are of theisame length, the other two being also vhinged together and hinged to the first two and being also of the same length, each of said parts or sections being composed of separatepartsor strips connected with the corner-posts so as to turn thereon, four of said posts being employed, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claimtheforegoing as my invention I have signed myiname, in presence of the subscribing. witnesses, this 24th day of January, 1901.

WILLIAM"- PRICE ABELL.

Witnessesz.

EVELYN ABELL, ELIZABETH PARKER. 

